I don’t know if you’ve noticed but it’s itchy feet time in the weird and wonderful world of graphics cards. Even those of us with the latest and greatest GPUs have been messing around with them for a couple of years now, and we’ve gone an unusually long amount of time without a noticeable upgrade in performance.

For 4K gamers, the progress slowed at the worst time. We were so close to the ultimate single-GPU, 4K / Ultra graphics experience across all titles, and then we just kind of sat still.

But, that’s all about to change. Nvidia is expected to release its new graphics card range any day now, while AMD will surely follow suit in early 2019. We’re at crunch time and we suspect there are going to be millions of PC gamers that are putting a bit of spare cash aside to jump into a new generation over the next 12 months.

As ever with these things though, we’re expecting the highest-end GPUs to launch first, which also means the most expensive. Those after the mid or low-end graphics cards will have to show a little patience but eventually, we’re going to have our mitts on GTX 11 series and AMD Navi.

With the day fast approaching though, and rumours that Nvidia may even be considering jacking up the prices yet further, how much are you willing to spend for your next graphics card?

Personally, I’m currently rocking a GeForce GTX 970 in my system at home, as well a GTX 980 Ti as and when I need it. Suffice to say, it’s probably time for an upgrade and I’m going to be keeping a keen eye on the price to performance of both the GeForce GTX 1160 and the GeForce GTX 1170. I’m currently not looking to spend more than £350 if I can help it, although if the GTX 1170 is powerful enough it may be able to tempt me a little higher. Ideally, though, I’d be looking at the £300-350 range, which usually translates to $300-350 in America-land.

So how much are you planning (or hoping) to spend on your next graphics card? Are you looking to buy a like-for-like replacement, or are you planning to go up or down a tier?

I'm also going for the 1160 over the 1170 as I have my PC in a cheap £20 office case with only 2 side intake fans and 1 exhaust, My 970 hits 82 degrees in this case so would have to buy a new case to accommodate a 1170 due to temps.

Here in Argentina, an R7 580 8Gb and the GTX 1060 6Gb costs around U$S450, i was thinking in upgrade my old R7 265 for one of those or maybe the RX 570-580 4Gb… Or wait until next year for new releases.

I think $250-$300 USD for entering into the high-end gaming space is justified.For that money all games should be playable at 1080p Ultra and some lesser titles at 2k. But yeah the new $500 ntry price point for GTX 1160 is just garbage.

I'd like to see a sub $200 card for playing most games at High/Ultra 1080p60. The 480/580/1060 were supposed to be sold at or slightly above $200 and were the best cards for 1080p gaming, in this current/last gen. So if GPUs are becoming more powerful, shouldn't we see that in terms of a price reduction at the same resolution (1080p). I understand another variable is the graphical demands of newer games, which may be higher, but that can't be a big enough issue can it, since the graphics haven't improved drastically for most games. Not until RayTracing is fully implemented in future games.

Not a chance to get a good 200$ GPU that actually costs/is worth as much as its sold for, people buy GPUs based on marketing names… they think that if a GPU is named GTX 1080, or 980 or just ends in "80" that it's high-end and should cost a lot of money… -_-

If people bought GPUs based on chips, then the gtx 1080 would have cost as much as it's 2011 equivalent the gtx 560 -> 300$ due to lack of comeptition(200$ in 2011) max MSRP…

The gtx 1080 was a mid-range GPU sold at a high-end price in 2016 700$ MSRP… 117% profit margin… apple sells at 40% profit margin and people think Apple is overpriced, Nvidia is overpriced.

This year Nvidia sells it's GPUs at a 134% profit margin, thus Nvidia is over 3x more overpriced than Apple.

Now for 1080p, we already got a 200$ GPU that was great in the form of the rx 480 back in 2016, it's normal for it to fall behind now that it's 2 years+ old, but I think that this time it might cost 250$ or so, due to people being ignorant as always along with reviewers youtube/article reviewers supporting all the bs…

I try to calculate the price to performance. The higher end cards just isn't worth it, imo. All my graphics cards to this point have cost less than 300 usd. With a strong CPU and a mid to mid / high end card your PC will be plenty strong for 1080p.